While the clip and its wool testing business continues to shrink, AWTA is busy diversifying into other ventures.

The latest ventures include the West Australian food testing business Inman & Farrell and the water, soil and plant testing business Agro-Nutritional Research Laboratory.

It follows AWTA's acquisition of Agrifood Technology in 2008 and last year's purchase of FeedTest.

Managing director Michael Jackson said all of AWTA's West Australian ventures would be based at Bibra Lake, near Fremantle.

Source: AWTA